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WVSB438The purpose of this bill is to clarify the definition of shared parenting; and updating language regarding the allocation of custodial responsibility and decision-making responsibility of children.To Judiciary Committee2009-03-04
WVSB1The purpose of this bill is to give the Office of the Attorney General the power to investigate and charge home heating oil, gasoline or other motor fuel price gouging, at any time.To Judiciary Committee2008-01-09
WVSB449The purpose of this bill is to clarify domestic relations definitions.To Judiciary Committee2009-03-04
WVSB2The purpose of this bill is to give a circuit judge discretion to impose the original sentence on a youthful offender who has successfully completed a youthful offender training program but who has been charged with committing another crime between h...
Read more		To Judiciary Committee2008-01-09
WVSB3The purpose of this bill is to require review of life without parole sentences by the State Supreme Court of Appeals.To Judiciary Committee2008-01-09
WVSB645The purpose of this bill is to create and provide structures and standards for a New Intermediate Court of Appeals. This article is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.To Senate Judiciary Committee2010-02-22
WVSB87The purpose of this bill is to establish a procedure that requires a claimant that files an asbestos case after the effective date of this bill to provide information to all defendants about all claims filed or anticipated to be filed by that claiman...
Read more		To Judiciary Committee2009-02-11
WVSB260The purpose of this bill is to allow the Supreme Court of Appeals to establish a uniform bail schedule which will allow persons charged with crimes to be released by posting a standard bail when a magistrate is not available.To Judiciary Committee2008-01-18
WVSB646The purpose of this bill is to provide that criminal sentences of imprisonment may run concurrently or consecutively. The bill also provides that sentences are to run concurrently unless a court orders or a statute requires otherwise.To Senate Judiciary Committee2010-02-22
WVSB89The purpose of this bill is to limit classification of real property as managed timberland to prevent county property tax revenues from decreasing by more than four percent.To Judiciary Committee2009-02-11
WVSB484The purpose of this bill is to limit the landowner from civil liability for injuries that may occur to person or property on the landowner's property or surrounding property caused while hunting.To Senate Judiciary Committee2010-02-05
WVSB5The purpose of this bill is to legalize and regulate the selling of fireworks.To Judiciary Committee2008-01-09
WVSB261The purpose of this bill is to validate certain transactions in which a grantor conveys property not owned at that time but subsequently acquires it.To Judiciary Committee2008-01-18
WVSB773The purpose of this bill is to authorize the stabilization of property tax increases for property owned, used and occupied by senior citizens.To Judiciary Committee2008-02-18
WVSB504The purpose of this bill is to require the State Fire Commission to promulgate rules pertaining to the State Building Code that are in accordance with certain national and international building codes and standards. The amendments to the code propos...
Read more		To Judiciary Committee2009-03-06
WVSB485The purpose of this bill is to require a humane officer to notify the magistrate court when the officer has taken into custody an animal that has been abandoned or neglected.To Senate Judiciary Committee2010-02-05
WVSB774The purpose of this bill is to clarify, that, notwithstanding the other terms of this section, the West Virginia Public Service Commission may authorize a water utility to implement a tariff incorporating reduced rates for low-income residential cust...
Read more		To Judiciary Committee2008-02-18
WVSJR1The purpose of this resolution is to increase the homestead exemption from twenty thousand dollars to thirty thousand dollars.To Senate Judiciary Committee2010-01-13
WVSB517Legislative status for West Virginia WV Senate Bill SB517To Judiciary Committee2009-03-09
WVSJR2Legislative status for West Virginia WV Senate Joint Resolution SJR2To Senate Judiciary Committee2010-01-13
WVSB516This bill was recommended for introduction and passage by the Joint Standing Committee on the Judiciary. The concepts for this model act were devised by the National Association of Drug Court Professionals (NADCP) Board of Directors' Drug Policy Com...
Read more		To Judiciary Committee2009-03-09
WVSJR3The purpose of this resolution is to amend the State Constitution in order to prohibit the state from recognizing same sex marriages.To Senate Judiciary Committee2010-01-13
WVSB96The purpose of this bill is to give the Office of the Attorney General the power to investigate and charge home heating oil, gasoline or other motor fuel price gouging, at any time.To Judiciary Committee2009-02-11
WVSJR4The purpose of this resolution is to propose an amendment to section fourteen, article VII of the West Virginia Constitution, relating to creating a veto session of the Legislature to consider bills vetoed by the Governor.To Senate Judiciary Committee2010-01-13
WVSB97The purpose of this bill is to provide that accessible parking (formerly referred to as handicapped parking) violations will be considered motor vehicle violations and criminal offenses for certain penalty and record keeping purposes.To Judiciary Committee2009-03-04
WVSJR5The purpose of this resolution is to amend the State Constitution in order to prohibit the state from recognizing same sex marriages.To Senate Judiciary Committee2010-01-13
WVSB98The purpose of this bill is to authorize the Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner and certain employees to have arrest powers; and to authorize the carrying of a concealed weapon while performing his or her official duties.To Judiciary Committee2009-02-11
WVSJR6The purpose of this joint resolution is to clarify who is eligible for a seat in the Legislature.To Senate Judiciary Committee2010-01-13
WVSB525The purpose of this bill is to allow both the accused and prosecuting attorney to have four strikes from a panel of potential jurors.To Judiciary Committee2008-01-31
WVSB523The purpose of this bill is to require property value assessment adjustments when ten percent or more of sales of real property in a county are foreclosure sales.To Judiciary Committee2009-03-10
WVSJR7The purpose of this resolution is to increase the homestead exemption from $20,000 to $50,000.To Senate Judiciary Committee2010-01-13
WVSB14The purpose of this bill is to prohibit certain employers from meeting and communicating with employees regarding the employer's political, religious, or labor organizing activities. The bill also provides a civil remedy for violations.To Judiciary Committee2008-01-09
WVSB526The purpose of this bill is to replace the phrase "other infamous offense" with better defined criteria as the basis for disqualification of prospective jurors; the criteria mirrors the matters for which a witness at trial may be impeached.To Judiciary Committee2008-01-31
WVSJR8The purpose of this resolution is to provide an alternative method of calculating the homestead exemption based on the average cost or value of the residential property by county. The exemption shall never be less than $20,000.To Senate Judiciary Committee2010-01-13
WVSB205The purpose of this bill is to create a cemetery commission to regulate private cemeteries and to address the various concerns with cemetery care and maintenance.To Senate Judiciary Committee2010-01-13
WVSJR9The purpose of this resolution is to amend the State Constitution to clarify that the Constitution does not require the state to pay for an abortion.To Senate Judiciary Committee2010-01-13
WVSB609The purpose of this bill is to increase the page rates a court reporter is to receive for providing typewritten transcripts. The bill provides that those pay rates be increased from $2.85 per page to $3.25 per page for original transcripts and from $...
Read more		To Senate Judiciary Committee2010-02-18
WVSJR10The purpose of this Resolution is to amend the State Constitution to give the people the powers of initiative, referendum and recall.To Senate Judiciary Committee2010-01-13
WVSB208The purpose of this bill is to make wagering at animal fighting ventures and conducting, financing, managing, supervising, owning or leasing any part of an animal fighting venture or the premises on which it takes place with knowledge that wagering i...
Read more		To Senate Judiciary Committee2010-02-02
WVSJR11The purpose of this resolution is to submit the proposed "Commercial and Industrial Tangible Personal Property Tax Exemption Amendment" to the Constitution of the State to the people of the state for ratification or rejection at the general...
Read more		To Senate Judiciary Committee2010-01-14
WVSB274The purpose of this bill is to prescribe minimum requirements relative to tethering or chaining animals, including the length and weight of chains or tethering devices, as well as other requirements, all of which are intended to protect animals from ...
Read more		To Judiciary Committee2008-01-21
WVSB209The purpose of this bill is to make it a criminal act to assault emergency medical service personnel, including paid and volunteer firefighters, when acting in an official capacity. The bill also establishes criminal penalties.To Senate Judiciary Committee2010-01-13
WVHB3057The purpose of this bill is to require all law-enforcement agencies in this state to certify qualified law-enforcement officers to carry concealed firearms nationwide as provided by the federal Law-Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004 and require ...
Read more		To Judiciary Committee2009-04-02
WVSB276The purpose of this bill is to modify the time frame for submitted claims for reimbursement. This bill was recommended by Subcommittee A of the Joint Standing Committee on Finance during the 2007-2008 legislative interim session.To Judiciary Committee2008-01-21
WVSB277The purpose of this bill is to authorize the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals to create a panel of senior status magistrate assistants, allowing the West Virginia Supreme Court to employ retired magistrate assistants when current assistants are...
Read more		To Judiciary Committee2008-01-21
WVSB113The purpose of this bill is to rescind state financial assistance from students who receive two or more citations for an open container violation, DUI, underage consumption, public intoxication or contributing to the delinquency of a minor.To Judiciary Committee2009-03-04
WVSB524The purpose of this bill is to change the upper age restriction for new police hires in municipalities from thirty-five to forty-five years of age.To Judiciary Committee2009-03-10
WVSB278The purpose of this bill is to establish a special license for health care professionals who are retired and are donating their expertise in a clinic setting and to provide such persons who render such services with immunity from civil liability.To Judiciary Committee2008-02-15
WVSB116The purpose of this bill is to provide penalties for failure to report under the provisions of this section.To Judiciary Committee2009-02-11
WVSB24The purpose of this bill is to provide a copy of advanced directives in the form of living wills, medical powers of attorney and combined medical powers of attorney and living wills to public employees and retirees covered by the PEIA.To Judiciary Committee2008-01-09
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